Here's another "watched on the plane" short thoughts. I think I watched this coming back from Greece?  It doesn't really matter.  This was a movie that I also had on my to watch list, but never made the time for when I was at home.  I read the novel (audiobook version narrated by Wil Wheaton), and I found it rather enjoyable. I understand the criticism that it was rather derivative

It's been a while since I saw this on a plane to (or from?) Greece, but I thought I'd add some short thoughts here. All of the Tron movies, which include Tron (1982), Tron: Legacy (2010), and Tron: Ares (2025), have been on my to watch list for a while now. Tron seemed like one of those culturally defining movies (at least the original 1982 one) that I should watch.I started with Ares first to

Welp... the TV Tracking app I used is no more!  It's actually been a week since it went dark, but I just had the time to sit down and write a couple of in memoriam words for it.I had been using the app for a while now, and back in the day it was called TV Show Time. I guess it emphasized discoverability.  It was fun to see what friends were watching, and also to keep track of what I've

 Continuing on my completionist mission (completing series of games, not necessarily getting 100% on them, I finished Halo 5: Guardians on 5/18/26; a little more than a decade after it launched, and probably 7 years after I bought it on sale 😅According to TrueAchievements, I completed Halo 4 in 2014, so it took a while to get back into the franchise. Where I last left the story, Cortana

Back in the day, we used to watch Mad Men when it was on TV on a week-by-week basis, but by around Season 5 things were too f*cked up, and there didn't seem to be much redeeming value to the main characters, so we slowly fell off.  This year, being the completionist that I am, I wanted to watch the seasons I had missed out after 2010(?) when we stopped watching. Spoilers obviously, but then again

Time does fly!  This year is the 25th anniversary of Star Trek: Enterprise (or just "Enterprise" as it originally aired?), and Star Trek Online has an anniversary ship bundle to mark the occasion.  I don't particularly care for the aesthetics of the ships of that era, but what caught my eye with this advertisement is the way they did it.  The ad for the new ship bundle feels very much

Well now... after completing the first Cobra Kai game, I thought I'd continue with the sequel, Dojos Rising.  I was doing pretty well with this game, but after a few frustrating weekends, I decided that this was going to be a Did Not Finish kind of game for me.  Pronounced DNF on March 22 😹The game essentially picks up after the first game ends, and somewhere in Season 4 (?) of the series.

Back in the day, when "multimedia PCs" were new, and I had just returned from Greece, I used to spend a lot of time (relatively speaking) on Saturdays at Tower Records on my way to the Public Library. It was truly a multimedia wonderland, with music (in various formats), videos (also in various formats), and different types of video games (mostly of the computer games variety, I don't recall seeing

Well, here's one final Year In Review. This time from my TV tracking app (which also tracks movies).  Some things are still predictable (I watch a lot of MasterChef). Some things are not totally accurate - for instance, I didn't binge WWE Smackdown, but I did mark that I had watched certain seasons (back in the last 90s/early 2000s), which TVTime counted as having watched last January.  The

Continuing on with my vintage sci-fi binge (this might be the last one for now...until I discover more), today I present to you William Shatner's TekWar.This series started life as a series of novels written by Shatner, or written by Ron Goulart, who seems to be uncredited and Shatner lending his name to them for exposure/promotional purposes...Anyway, it seems like Shatner, after Star Trek, just needed